For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 26, 2001

President Bush to Nominate Five Individuals to Serve in his Administration

President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate five individuals to serve within his administration.

The President intends to nominate John V. Hanford, III to be
Ambassador at Large for International Religious
Freedom. Hanford has served as a Congressional Fellow in
International Religious Freedom in the Office of Senator Richard Lugar
since 1987, and has also been the Executive Director of the
Congressional Fellows Program in International Religious Freedom since
he established the program in 1986. In 1998, Hanford served as the lead
architect of the International Religious Freedom Act. Before
coming to Washington, D.C. Hanford was a Pastoral Assistant at West
Hopewell Church in Hopewell, Virginia. He is a graduate of
the University of North Carolina and the Gordon-Conwell Theological
Seminary.

The President intends to nominate Mary L. Walker to be General
Counsel of the Department of the Air Force. Most recently,
Walker was a Partner with the law firm of Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison
in San Diego, California, and was a Partner with Luce, Forward,
Hamilton and Scripps from 1991 to 1994. In 1989, she was appointed to
the Inter American Tropical Tuna Commission where she served until
1995. From 1985 to 1988, Walker was Assistant Secretary for
Environment, Safety and Health at the U.S. Department of
Energy. From 1984 to 1985, she served as Deputy Solicitor of
the U.S. Department of the Interior, and from 1982 to 1984, Walker was
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Land and Natural
Resources Division of the Department of Justice. She is a
graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Boston
University School of Law.

The President intends to nominate Patrick Francis Kennedy to be
Alternative Representative of the United States to the Sessions of the
General Assembly of the United Nations. Kennedy is presently
serving as Representative of the United States of America to the United
Nations for U.N. Management and Reform with the rank of
Ambassador. A Career Minister in the Foreign Service, he
served as Assistant Secretary of State for Administration from 1993
until his confirmation. He joined the Foreign Service in
1973 and has held multiple posts both in Washington, D.C., and abroad
including Supervisory General Services Officer in Paris, France, and
Deputy Executive Secretary in the State Department's Executive
Secretariat. A native of Chicago, Illinois, he is a graduate
of Georgetown University.

The President intends to nominate C. William Swank to be a Member
of the Board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation for a term
expiring December 17, 2002. Currently retired, Swank served
the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation for 40 years, holding the position of
executive vice president from 1968 to 1996. Since his
retirement from the federation in 1996, he has served as one of three
chairmen named by then-Governor George Voinovich to the Ohio Farmland
Preservation Task Force. Swank was also Chief Executive
Officer for the Washington, D.C. based Cooperative Business
International, a corporation that promotes global marketing among the
world's cooperatives. He received an undergraduate degree,
Master's degree and Ph.D. from Ohio State University.

The President intends to nominate Leslie Silverman to be a Member
of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for the remainder of a
term expiring July 1, 2003. She has served as Labor Counsel
to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
since 1997. From 1990 to 1997, Silverman was a litigation
and employment associate at Keller and Heckman in Washington,
D.C. She received an undergraduate degree from the
University of Vermont, a J.D. from American University and a Master of
Laws in Labor and Employment Law from Georgetown University Law
Center.